The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Governor Foraker is graduate Of
Cornell.
The Prince of Wales is an expert
performer on the banjo.
DR. Spencer F. Baird was the au-
thor of more than 1920 books, PAM
phlets and publications of various
kinds.
The Duke of Buccleuch is consid-
cred the richest man in Scotland. He
has m income Of about $500, 600
year
The author of novel relating to
the romance of the life of a needle
woman named the book "The History
of q Sewer" and was panied to
find it catalogued among works on
drainage. -4Ha California.
Miss Meade, Pennsylvania girl, is
the reigning beauty at Homburg. The
Prince of Wales has declared her to be
the handsomest woman he ever saw,
but all the same she declines to be in
troduced to His Royal Highness.
The wife of Prof A. Graham Bell,
though perfectly deaf, loses little of the
table talk when she and her husband
are entertaining company at dinner
Without uttering sound the famous
inventor telegraphs with his lips near
ly every thing that is said. and she
cleverly reads them as she would a
book
The Crown Princess of Austria,
during her sojourn at Abbazia, on the
Adriatic, commanded a crew of six
young and beautiful Countesses of the
bluest blood of the empire, who
womaned barge, which the Princess
steered as they rowed. They were all
expert at the oars, and called the Prin-
cess Commodore y
Louise Michel, the famous French
Communist, is said at last to have
crossed the boundary into insanity. or,
at least, into alteration. Her publish
ers are refusing to print her books, her
health is broken, and she is, it is said,
likely to be left to starve if her pen and
tongue fail her. AS rule, except in
revolutionary districts, she is now
hooted at and ilI-treated, it is said,
when she speaks.
Queen Christina, of Spain, is moi
pretty, her face being too hoayy and
inexpensive; but she has goodness and
tact enough to make up for lack OF
beauty. She has fairly conquered the
affection of the Spanish nation, and
she loses no opportunity to do kind
deeds. Her last act at Bilbao the other
day was to sign a decree committing tc
penal servitude the sentence of death
upon four conyicts lying in the Prison
there.
-Alphonse Daudet, who spent the
summer at his country seat, Champro.
say, near Paris, is reported to suffer
greatly from nervousness and insom-
MIA. He has Withdrawn almost
completely from the society of his
friends, and seeks to forget his suffer
ings in redoubled work. He has three
new books under way--a novel,
IL Immortel, /" which is intended as
bitter satire on the Academy; an idyl.
lie story called ''Ma Paroisse," and an
autobiography work entitled "Ma
Douleur," in which he will depict the
disappointments of his literary career
N 7. Independent.
Following SO soon after the expen-
sive luxury of jubilee celebration
QueenVictoria finds the matrimonial en-
thusiasm of her maids of honor q cause
of annoyance Victoria, with the lib
crafty which naturally results from the
commercial prosperity of her subjects,
presents SIS, 900 to every maid of honor
who marries while an attache OF the
royal household. Miss Louisa Brown
low, who has been an attendant on the
Queen for only four months, is about
to enter wedlock and the Queen will
feel Obliged to give her ''a thousand
pun Miss Brownlow is the second
maid of honor to marry within six
months. Boston Transcript.